by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management, Off-Topic |
But we knew it all along Infoworld published a follow-up clarifying Apple’s inclusion of ZFS in Mac OS X 10.5.0. And doing quite a bit of tap dancing. Apple now says that the ZFS file system will be available in the forthcoming Mac operating system, sort of....
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 11, 2007 | Architecture, Clusters, Future Tech, Information Management |
I’m pumped! Next week I’m flying to Seattle to attend a one day conference on scalability hosted by Google’s Kirkland office. It is a great set of presentations with leading edge practitioners. Here’s the agenda, presenters and edited...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, June 9, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management |
Make HFS to ZFS conversions fast and painless Let’s say you wanted to convert millions of computers to a new file system. How would you do it? Back up, reformat the disk, and then reinstall everything? Or run a handy file system converter that changes the file...
by Robin Harris | Wednesday, June 6, 2007 | Architecture, Future Tech, Information Management, SSD/Flash/NVRAM |
All we need now is teh Steve to say it . . . Thanks to alert reader Petieg, I’ve learned that according to Mac Rumors Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz said today that In fact, this week you’ll see that Apple is announcing at their Worldwide Developer Conference...
by Robin Harris | Monday, June 4, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management |
How to botch an announcement I’ve been thinking about email lately (see Email value management and What is email?). So it was interesting to see that Palm managed to bungle the announcement of their “next big thing” the email companion called Foleo....
by Robin Harris | Friday, June 1, 2007 | Enterprise, Information Management |
So why did Cisco buy social-networking software provider Tribe? John Chambers, Cisco CEO, is quoted in the D/ blog on the Wall Street Journal website (it might be open to non-subscribers, but I’m in an airplane right now and can’t check) “A lot of...
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